2019-4-23 17:57 |
Erik Voorhees – CEO of Shapeshift, big-time proponent of Bitcoin, and notable individual in the crypto space – recently… The post Erik Voorhees Says This Is the Most Important Crypto Chart Community Should Watch appeared first on Invest In Blockchain. origin »
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Many people believe that the global economy is on the verge of collapse. Several credited and established economist back this theory, despite some people affirming that everything is going to be fine and that there is simply nothing to worry about.
2019-4-17 00:00 | |
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Over the years, Bitcoin has gained a reputation for having a “toxic” community of users around it. This accusation is mostly thrown at Bitcoin by proponents of altcoins and those who have supported various Bitcoin hard fork attempts in the past.
2019-4-5 16:23 | |
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Bitcoin’s rise above the $5,000 threshold has been significantly publicized in both the crypto community and mainstream media, considering how long Bitcoin has remained still. Many proponents have popped up to speak on their support of cryptocurrency and decentralization, including CEO and founder Erik Voorhees of Shapeshift. In a tweet, Voorhees explained that the rise […]
2019-4-5 00:44 | |
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By CCN. com: Erik Voorhees, the founder and CEO of ShapeShift, a leading crypto conversion platform, has said crypto is maturing and that despite the price trend of bitcoin and other major crypto assets, the industry has seen growth in key areas in recent months.
2019-3-30 19:59 | |
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ShapeShift CEO, Erik Voorhees, has talked about the cryptocurrency market and Bitcoin (BTC), the most popular digital asset in the space. During an interview with Peter McCormack at WhatBitcoinDid, Voorhees said that Bitcoin needs to be very conservative.
2019-3-25 17:17 | |
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Bitcoin and pizza have a long storied history. But now BTC and PPS (pepperoni's per second) may be the next link in the chain as one of bitcoin's early supporters has some fun in the crypto community.
2019-3-24 20:50 | |
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Blockchain investigation and cybersecurity firm CipherBlade has done its own research, the results of which seem to exonerate crypto exchange ShapeShift from a scathing report in The Wall Street Journal.
2019-3-22 20:20 | |
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Shapeshift, a crypto exchange based in Switzerland, has released a six-episode show about crypto enthusiasts, including its CEO Erik Voorhees
2019-2-28 21:16 | |
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At the recently held ETHDenver, ShapeShift CEO Erik Vorhees announced that his company would be undergoing a major rebranding exercise in 2019. The first step in this will take place on Monday, February 17, 2019.
2019-2-18 00:47 | |
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In a panel discussion on leadership at ethereum hackathon ETHDenver, Erik Voorhees – founder of cryptocurrency exchange platform ShapeShift –spoke frankly about the tough decisions both he and his team have made in recent months.
2019-2-17 17:00 | |
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The cryptocurrency platform Bakkt continues to hire experts before the launch of their crypto platform. According to a recent report released by The Block, the company recruited two new directors. One of them is Erik Haas, who joined from the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) as director of compliance. The second one is Rachel Ford, who will […]
2019-2-8 21:59 | |
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Tidbits summarizes interesting chatter from across the cryptosphere. Today, the crypto community reacts to Erik Voorhees’s argument that maximalism is a flawed ideology. Jonathan Silverblood recommends using the bear market as an opportunity to build while earning crypto and Craig Wright claims he owns more BTC than anyone else in the world.
2019-1-29 19:03 | |
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It seems like ShapeShift has done exactly as its name suggests, changing form almost beyond recognition. Founder, CEO, and no fan of the SEC, Erik Voorhees’ exchange once existed without accounts.
2019-1-19 23:00 | |
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ShapeShift, a prominent token-swapping platform, has added itself to the long list of crypto companies that have performed a major layoff over the course of the crypto winter. According to CEO Erik Voorhees, ShapeShift has just dismissed thirty-seven of its employees—a third of the company’s workforce.
2019-1-12 20:10 | |
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The crypto winter has devastated companies in the industry, including ShapeShift. CEO Erik Vorhees confirmed on Jan. 10 the layoff of 37 employees in the well-funded startup, a third of the firm’s workforce.
2019-1-11 21:20 | |
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On January 8, 2019, Swiss cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift reportedly laid off 37 employees, citing a tough market climate according to the exchange’s CEO Erik Voorhees. Crypto Winter Hits ShapeShift Another business in the crypto industry has suffered from the prolonged crypto winter that has slowed its growth since November 2018.
2019-1-10 22:00 | |
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The “crypto winter” is far from over and cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift is the latest to fall victim to its harsh ways. In a blog post published yesterday evening, ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees announced that he has had to “let 37 employees go.
2019-1-9 13:04 | |
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The instant digital asset exchange platform ShapeShift has laid off one-third of its team because of the “dramatic and severe” crypto recession as well as being cautious in “a challenging regulatory environment.
2019-1-9 13:00 | |
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In today’s roundup of crypto chatter, Jonathan Silverblood responds to Amaury Sechet’s privacy concerns with Cashaccount. Erik Voorhees defends Brian Armstrong from criticism on the latter’s 10 year Bitcoin anniversary tweets.
2019-1-4 12:05 | |
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The bear market that affected the whole crypto industry seems to have reached everyone in the space. Erik Finman, one of the youngest Bitcoin (BTC) millionaires said that Bitcoin is dead. This young investor placed $1,000 in Bitcoin back in 2011 and had around $8 million when the market was close to $20,000. According to […]
2018-12-17 01:58 | |
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Erik Finman, The “Teenage Bitcoin Millionaire” Erik Finman is likely a name you have heard in crypto’s lore. If this name doesn’t ring any bells, here’s some background on this near-mythical figure in Bitcoin’s history.
2018-12-15 04:16 | |
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On the weekend news of a bug at NEO-Nodes made the rounds. The NEO bug discovered by the Chinese software giant Tencent is supposed to make it potentially possible for attackers to withdraw crypto currencies from wallets of NEO node operators.
2018-12-6 03:51 | |
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A foreign investor had planned to invest $116 million to build a crypto mining facility in Norway. However, it does not seem to be going forward because the country’s government has decided to exempt crypto mining centers from receiving tax subsidies.
2018-11-29 18:32 | |
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Today, November 26, 2018, marks the launch of the Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO) and the FIO Protocol, an interwallet protocol that seeks to make the transfer of cryptos between wallets as simple and straightforward as making transfers on PayPal.
2018-11-27 02:52 | |
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Salt Lending Holdings Inc. , a lender that uses cryptocurrencies as collateral, is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a roughly $50 million dollar ICO it held in August 2017.
2018-11-18 02:00 | |
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Crypto loans startup Salt and its former CEO are said to be under investigation by the SEC, according to the The Wall Street Journal.
2018-11-16 15:10 | |
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Erik Voorhees, the founder of ShapeShift, talked about the influence of Know-Your-Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money-Laundering (AML) policies. During a discussion with Naomi Brockwell on Youtube, he has also given his opinion about regulations in the cryptocurrency world.
2018-11-5 00:53 | |
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“Bitcoin, Crypto Will Replace Government Fiat Over Time” Erik Voorhees, CEO of ShapeShift, recently sat down with Naomi Brockwell, a crypto-loving film/TV producer, in an exclusive interview regarding Bitcoin’s 10th anniversary and what’s next for this nascent industry.
2018-11-4 04:38 | |
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XAPO CEO and Renowned “Patient Zero” Says Bitcoin “May Work, It Might Not” CEO of the bitcoin wallet and vault (XAPO), Wences Casares sat down with Bloomberg’s Erik Schatzker to discuss volatility of the crypto sphere, along with where Bitcoin might be headed on Monday, October 29, on Bloomberg’s market. Casares is definitely rooting for […]
2018-10-30 20:07 | |
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Cryptocurencies are often criticized for many reasons. Some of them are valid and others are not, but in either case they can be infuriating for the people in the industry sometimes. Fury is probably the sentiment that has driven the CEO of ShapeShift, Erik Voorhees, to bash the Wall Street Journal for a recent publication […]
2018-10-2 02:47 | |
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ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees condemned a Wall Street Journal investigation claiming the exchange laundered money as being "inaccurate."
2018-10-2 01:10 | |
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A new report from the Wall Street Journal found that $88. 6 million in illicit funds have been funneled through 46 documented cryptocurrency exchanges. $9 million of these funds is reported to have gone through Switzerland-based digital currency exchange ShapeShift.
2018-9-30 17:59 | |
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Earlier this month, Danske Bank, the biggest bank in Denmark, faced its largest scandal to date for laundering more than $230 billion. Despite the billions of dollars banks launder on a daily basis, critics are still focused on crypto exchanges.
2018-9-29 10:00 | |
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In a what appears to be a seismic shift in company ethos, digital assets platform ShapeShift has launched a new loyalty program called "ShapeShift Membership" which will require the exchange users to provide "basic personal details," according to a blog post published September 4, 2018.
2018-9-6 21:20 | |
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Non-custodial crypto trading platform Shapeshift has introduced a membership program which will soon be mandatory. CEO Erik Voorhees explains that his exchange will have to begin collecting basic personal information of its users, and there will be five membership levels.
2018-9-5 08:15 | |
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On August 8, 2018, ShapeShiftAG, the parent company of ShapeShift. io, one of the world's largest decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges, announced its acquisition of Bitfract, a blockchain software startup based in Austin, Texas.
2018-8-10 19:33 | |
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Financial commentator Peter Schiff claims gold-backed digital coins will be “only type of cryptocurrency that can succeed” in recent ‘Bitcoin Debate’ with Erik Voorhees
2018-7-4 12:13 | |
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Erik Voorhees of ShapeShift and Peter Schiff Debate Bitcoin at New York’s Soho Forum Investors and consumers were treated to a spirited debated between two players in the crypto industry – Erik Voorhees and Peter Schiff.
2018-7-3 20:24 | |
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“Bitcoin, or a similar form of cryptocurrency, will eventually replace governments’ fiat money as the preferred medium of exchange” was the resolution for a rollicking debate between Shapeshift CEO Erik Voorhees (affirmative) and Euro Pacific Capital Inc CEO Peter Schiff, prominent cryptocurrency skeptic (negative).
2018-7-3 12:50 | |
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This week, the U. S. Department of Justice and other law enforcement agencies banded together to bring down some bad actors on the dark web. EOS is undergoing some growing pains with the launch of its network, exposing the trials and tribulations of an all-too-centralized governance model.
2018-6-30 20:56 | |
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They’re the real-life portfolio highlights of Erik Voorhees, reflecting his involvement with ShapeShift. io, Prism, Coinapult, KeepKey and SatoshiDice respectively. He’s been accumulating these credentials since 2012, when he launched SatoshiDice, the well-known gambling website that proved to be the first of Voorhees’ many wagers on crypto’s future.
2018-6-27 23:35 | |
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The Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network has added a new show to its lineup, “What Bitcoin Did. ” The WBD podcast is hosted by U. K. -based Peter McCormack, an “accidental Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency investor, miner, blogger and podcaster.
2018-6-26 20:34 | |
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In a recent interview with Bloomberg, the CEO of Swiss-based cryptocurrency exchange Shapeshift has spoken out against government regulators and authorities for not yet catching up with the trend of cryptocurrency.
2018-6-12 17:30 | |
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Erik Voorhees, CEO of ShapeShift was interviewed today by Bloomberg. He spoke about the regulation of cryptocurrencies, the security in the crypto work and about ShapeShift. On asked about how he sees the crypto landscape building at the moment, he said he had been involved crypto since Bitcoin was $5 and back then it was the only […]
2018-6-11 00:40 | |
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The federal regulator instituted a cease-and-desist against ShapeShift, which dissolved its U.S. crypto exchange in 2021.
President Nayib Bukele announced that El Salvador had bought another 80 Bitcoin at an average price of $19,000 early Friday. Voorhees Criticizes El Salvador Government El Salvador keeps buying the...
In a July interview with Cointelegraph, CEO Erik Voorhees described full decentralization as an “iterative process” that can take many years.
The noncustodial cryptocurrency exchange first announced plans to integrate decentralized exchanges in January. Now, mobile users can trade BTC with ETH and LTC, without an intermediary.
The global financial market is in shambles. Fears over the spread of the Coronavirus have hit the markets so hard that the effect has been felt in the crypto market as well. The stock market is collapsing, and even the oil market is feeling the heat.
When ShapeShift implemented KYC requirements, Erik Voorhees lost 95 percent of his users. But he remains as committed to crypto as ever.
According to Shapeshift CEO Erik Voorhees, Bitcoin has proven itself over the last 12 years and should now be at least 1% of every portfolio allocation. Bitcoin (BTC) has arguably been one of the most appreciative assets in history.